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Weeks before the Oscars were handed out Sunday, studios were already taking meetings with awards consultants for next year’s best picture contenders. What movies might we be hearing about again (and again ... and again) later this year? An early stab at a top 10, in alphabetical order: “Brooklyn,” (Fox Searchlight, release TBA): Searchlight paid $9 million at Sundance for this exquisite immigrant love story — and that might end up being a bargain price. Set in 1950s New York, it follows a homesick Irish woman (Saoirse Ronan) struggling to adapt to her new life until she meets a sweet Italian plumber (Emory Cohen). It’s beautifully crafted, emotionally...

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Weeks before the Oscars were handed out Sunday, studios were already taking meetings with awards consultants for next year’s best picture contenders. What movies might we be hearing about again (and again ... and again) later this year? An early stab at a...

The Spirit Awards. The Independent Spirit Awards. The Indie Spirits. It's an awards show so casual-cool that organizers don't even much mind what you call it.
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The 49th Academy Awards in 1977 ushered in a watershed year in the history of the Oscars.
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Jodie Foster has sold a home in Hollywood Hills for its latest asking price of $4.995 million.
The Spanish-style house, built in 1935, is in the Bird Streets area, long popular with celebrities.
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Jodie Foster has sold her home in Hollywood Hills for $4.995 million.
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Scott Frank likes to call himself "the least bitter writer in Hollywood," and given how much success he's had in his 30-year career, you could argue he should be. These days, though, reflecting on the state of the film industry that he loves, he...

Bucking the femme-centric trend in YA fantasy fare, boys claim the dystopian spotlight in "The Maze Runner."
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Alexandra Hedison, the actress-photographer-designer who wed Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster this spring, has sold a piece of her handywork in Hollywood Hills West home for $3,160,625. The house had been listed at $2.75 million.
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Alexandra Hedison, who married actress Jodie Foster last month, designed a Hollywood Hills West home that is for sale at $2.75 million.
The actress, photographer and home designer rebuilt and updated the 1956 home with new wiring, plumbing, roof and...

Jodie Foster married girlfriend Alexandra Hedison over the weekend, her rep has confirmed.
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Jodie Foster, the Academy Award-winning actress, has put her home in Hollywood Hills West back on the market for $5.75 million.
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Fleur de Lys on L.A.’s Westside has changed hands for $102 million, making it the highest-priced home sale ever recorded in L.A. County. Three billionaires engaged in a bidding war for the nearly five-acre trophy estate, the winner closing in 10 days in...

The longtime Malibu home of the late comedian Dick Martin and his actress wife, Dolly, is for sale at $11.5 million.
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Anjelica Huston has sold her home in Venice for $11.15 million.
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Selena Gomez, the 21-year-old pop star and actress, has listed her house in Tarzana for sale at $3.495 million.
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